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Obama's Plan To Seize Control Of Our Economy And Our Lives

President Obama has made clear that he’s determined to continue pushing his “progressive” agenda, regardless of constitutional limitations on his power. He aims to have his way by issuing more and more executive orders.

The most ominous sign of possible things to come appeared on March 16, 2012, when President Obama signed executive order 13603 about “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”

This 10-page document is a blueprint for a federal takeover of the economy that would dwarf the looming Obamacare takeover of the health insurance business. Specifically, Obama’s plan involves seizing control of:

* “All commodities and products that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals”

To be sure, much of this language has appeared in national security executive orders that previous presidents have issued periodically since the beginning of the Cold War.

But more than previous national security executive orders, Obama’s 13603 seems to describe a potentially totalitarian regime obsessed with control over everything. Obama’s executive order makes no effort to justify the destruction of liberty, no effort to explain how amassing totalitarian control would enable government to deal effectively with cyber sabotage, suicide bombings, chemical warfare, nuclear missiles or other possible threats. It’s quite likely there would be greater difficulty responding to threats, since totalitarian regimes suffer from economic chaos, colossal waste, massive corruption and bureaucratic infighting that are inevitable consequences of extreme centralization. Such problems plagued fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, communist China and other regimes. Totalitarian control would probably trigger resistance movements and underground networks like those that developed in Western Europe during the Nazi occupation. Totalitarian control could provoke more political turmoil than there was in the Vietnam War era of the 1960s. There would probably be a serious brain drain as talented people with critical skills escaped to freedom wherever that might be. Canada?

There’s nothing in executive order 13603 about upholding the Constitution or protecting civil liberties.

Obama’s executive order seems to assume that the next war will be like World War II or World War I, where vast armies of unskilled conscripts went at each other. But current trends suggest that future conflicts are more likely to involve smaller numbers of military personnel – highly-trained professionals, perhaps thousands of miles away from a battlefield, who remotely-control drones, pilotless combat helicopters, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned ships, mobile security robots and related military technologies.

Even if Obama’s 13603 were no different than previous national security executive orders, it’s more worrisome because it was issued by the president who rammed Obamacare and runaway spending bills through Congress, who racked up $5 trillion of debt and surrounded himself with hardcore “progressives” hostile to the private sector and America as we have known it.

In what circumstances, one might ask, would a president try to carry out this audacious plan?

Executive order 13603 says with ominous ambiguity: during “the full spectrum of emergencies.”

Well, the United States is already in a state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush on September 14, 2001 and extended last year by President Obama.

To better understand the potentially explosive impact of his plan, let’s take a tour through the dark world of executive orders, a type of presidential power that most people know little, if anything, about.

Many presidents have pushed to expand their power beyond constitutional limits, particularly during crises. Issuing executive orders is the easiest way to do it. A president doesn’t have to propose an executive order, debate the issues, endure hearings or solicit votes. An executive order can be issued in a few minutes — behind closed doors and away from bright lights.

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The Right’s tactics these days incorporate the features of Confederate politics to include endless name calling and accusations, often of their own sins just to fuzz up the issues and make real discussion impossible. At times it’s uncomfortably close to Goebbels, though Confederate politics is much older.

It also presently includes attempting to govern the US from the House and lopping off the top of the Executive Branch, bottling up the President in the White House. The President has responded by staffing his administration with “czars” and other measures which the author of this column would like to limit. The President is noticeably more successful in areas less impacted by our second Civil War – foreign policy and his role as CIC.

The author’s discussion of Executive Orders and the Presidency sounds like an argument for Constitutional reform providing for a Parliament and Prime Minister instead of the Congress and the Presidency. Such a discussion would be interesting but not in this context of extreme partisan warfare.

Our US system is failing not because of this or that architecture, but because of the total corruption of politics by money – our Washington and state capitol Pay-To-Play system. Because of it we do not have Capitalism/Markets outside of Main Street and the economy is increasingly distorted. Multinational corporations, including financial ones, buy their global interests in Washington to the point where citizens have to ask if we have an American Congress at all. Our elections more than ever are really two ballots, the first cast by money. Some on the Right would as soon drop the second or keep it for the appearance of Democracy. In an increasingly competitive world the United States cannot survive as a Banana Republic.

The US Pay-To-Play political system is a Founding Flaw probably left over from having to include the slave Southern Territories in the Revolution and the new country. Its society required the corruption of politics by money to maintain itself. The core South is a different, distinct culture area to this day. A central feature of its politics is to be very good at raising distracted, conflicting mobs while the real players clean the table. After the US Civil War the lack of a Jefferson’s Wall between politics and money was never fixed. Indeed, Washington became famously corrupt. So we retain one of the most malign features of the Confederate government to this day. Again, in an increasingly competitive world the United States cannot survive as a Banana Republic.

Perhaps the reason for this executive order is in preparation for the coming dollar bubble and debt bubble bursting, which will cause complete financial chaos (including hyperinflation) in the USA.

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As the article says, “President Obama, the Federal Reserve and Congress will do everything they can to not let this collapse happen before the November 2012 elections. However, they may not be able to stop it, as the markets are already reacting to failed attempts at austerity in the EU and the rising cost of debt. “

It’s not so much Obama that’s at fault, its the entire flawed system. If John McCain had won in 2008, we’d be facing pretty much the same problems with our government, the only difference would be the rhetoric voiced in public would be a bit different. Its not Obama, its the entire system thats corrupt. Thats why Ron Paul, whatever flaws most people think he has, needs to win.

This is how insane with hate you are towards Obama. Look at your reasoning: “There would probably be a serious brain drain as talented people with critical skills escaped to freedom wherever that might be. Canada?”

HAHAHAHA! Right! They would escape to Canada, where they would finally be able to enjoy a cost effective national health care plan! Jeez! Why didn’t we just short circuit this entire mess, and simply copy Canada’s health plan?

“Even if Obama’s 13603 were no different than previous national security executive orders…”

Right, because, without looking them up, I can bet it’s hardly any different.(or YOU, who make a living writing this bunk, would certainly tell us, and highlight the differences) Look, you need to at least think about, and make a plan, about what you would do should something major happen, like 3 suitcase nukes, in LA, Chicago, and NY, on the same day. I don’t like it, and I don’t like the idea of what would happen, but guess what, we would be in a war/lockdown situation, and most of us would “know” the country was in dire trouble, and we would be thinking about the survival of our country first.

When the radiation from Fukushima makes its way around the globe a health crisis of unprecedented proportion will disrupt civilization in a way that no government and no person can prepare for. The media is covering up the full extent of this disaster and for good reason. While government in the US and Europe put the final nails in the coffin that contain our liberty the appearance of normalcy will be maintained.

When you are as concerned about governments wanting to micro-manage women’s health and politicans that want to regulate what happens in private bedrooms I will take what you say seriously. Until then you’re just another talking head doing mental gymnastics to defend your corporate masters.

1976: Executive Order 11921: Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production, distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money.

Wow… This guy writes such a ‘thorough’ essay (11 pages!) on this topic, I wonder how or why he missed that one?

My favorite logical blunder of his is how there will be a flight to Canada of people looking for “freedom”. Huh? They would be going to a country with a national healthcare policy! I thought that was the bee in his bonnet to begin with! LOL